Quote Me: Portfolio Advice from Pete Ashton – Don’t be Nervous

“One thing I’ve noticed over the last couple of years is that the creators doing portfolio reviews at the 2000AD table [at the Bristol Comics festival] at least are very encouraging to new people probably because a lot of them were on the other side of the table until quite recently. In other words, the younger generation of pros know exactly what you’re going through hawking your portfolio around so they are often sympathetic and willing to give advice.”

Pete Ashton from bugpowder.com, ostensibly a resource for the UK small press but there’s much more on the site besides!

• You might also like to take a look at this guidance on what you should – and shouldn’t – include in your art portfolio when you’re showing it around at comic conventions. You might also like to take a look at my Editor’s View on what we like to see in Portfolios; and more advice here from Marcia Allas and Matt Brooker



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